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Why would this be an accessibility problem? I don't see why screen readers would have a problem dealing with it - for them the form in the users browser will appear just the same as it otherwise would.
That seems to be a very myopic, short-term and self-serving take on the issue/debate.
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The title isn't all caps.
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Ok thanks for the clarification, that exactly what I meant. I can live with the fact that I have a small risk of having to rewrite my apps if needed if there is no runtime dependencies on your server.

I'm pretty sure that I tried to find that info on your website and couldn't. Maybe you could explain this somewhere in your FAQ ?
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Heh... my primary objection to the name "the magazine" is how unbelievably pompous it is. It implies that the magazine is a new concept that he created. Perhaps he can get a software patent on this new- what do you call it "mak-ah-seen" thing. :)
I've never got that trick to make any difference, actually.
This is indeed very cool, but i'd love to hear VMWare explain why they created this. Does anyone know? Hopefully one of the members of the team can pipe in and share with us some of the decisions that led to making this.
Reading Game of Life descriptions feels like reading papers about quantum physics :)

Which creates some disturbing ideas about our reality.
It was always referred to as a hobby and one that wasn't looked upon very highly.

I never see this point come up much but I can tell you that when I was growing up "geek" was a pejorative term and the guys who were into computers were largely social outcasts. I can remember in high school the kinds of guys who sat on IRC chatting with their little "cyber friends" being made fun of. And I don't think they ever got much of a chance to "exclude" girls since my bet is most of them never had much luck getting one to talk to them in the first place. I don't doubt that sexism helps fuel the gender gap we see in tech, but sometimes it seems like people forget that the original demographic in this industry was by and large made up of socially awkward males who pursued their hobby despite being looked down upon and excluded by others, not because of the heaps of encouragement they were receiving.
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That background sound is annoying...
I was just saying to someone that we had IM on IBM mainframes (the chat facility) or the (confusingly named) Ethernet on DEC VAXes back in the mid 80s.

What we used them for was 'are you going for tea?' and other social chit-chat between the various terminal rooms up the Uni...
This article appears to expose a serious violation against the International Olympic Committed by the inappropriate use of "Olympic Games".

While it is possible that a proper license was obtained, it seems extremely unlikely that the IOC would permit there trademark to be used for an operation instigating a terrorist attack against one of its members countries and I am currently unaware of the IOC adopting hacking as a completive sport.

The article states "Mr. Obama ordered sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment plants, according to participants in the program. He decided to accelerate the attacks, which were begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games,"
Similarly you could capture keydown events (specifically arrows and tabs) and pare down the false positives from people using other accessibility devices/browsers.
Couldn't that be considered predatory?
May we just let comments = referrer links? Comment on your own blog, twitter feed, etc. and traffic from those sources list automatically under the content.

Fighting these kinds of problems makes for interesting mental challenges, but a technical solution isn't necessarily the best one. Shouldn't the price of having space on my site to comment be that you do so from some kind of online identity of your own?
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> I have no idea what you are referring to by tubes though.

Probably a reference to Elon Musk's recent claim that he had come up with some secret technology that could dramatically improve long distance transportation, with much (much) higher speed, lower energy usage, and (much) lower cost than conventional HSR.

Unfortunately the only detail Musk would give was a very hand-wavy reference to "tubes," and a subsequent clarification that he didn't mean the usual sort of "evacuated tube transport" people have talked about for ages and ages.

Based on all the discussion I've seen, though, it seems pretty likely it's just a vague idea Musk had that he didn't bother to think through, and it will fall apart when he tries to fill in the details...
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Seriously, you have a content filter? I mean, like the ones in primary school? Your boss trusts you that much? I'd seriously go looking for a better work place...
Care to provide an example of sexism to back-up your rant?
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If by motivated you mean "want to spam your site specifically at any cost", you're right.

But running javascript multiplies their processing costs substantially and it also means that at that point their costs can be driven up far higher simply by making the computation required to post higher - it doesn't take much - say a few hundred milliseconds of hash calculation on posting - to suddenly tie up a lot of resources for someone trying to spam as many people as they can for as few resources as possible.

For any spammer that has softer targets it makes little to no sense to bother.
I sense a lot of nativity in this post. For starters using GET just means that once one spam user creates a rule for your site, they can spam it until you change the variable names in the query string. Using JS to submit a form, whilst should be fine, but I STILL encounter people without JS, and personally without a JS fallback I think it's just bad coding.

A simple honeypot with some CRSF tokens would reduce spam, if you want to beat spam altogether, then invest some time in a captcha, but expect it to come at the user's expense.
Looks like Jotform hooked up with Stripe too, with an even deeper integration with recurring billing too.
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This is an interesting commentary. For the record, I have always thought that a good teacher is worth her or his weight in gold, and there is a pressing need to find and reward more good teachers. The trick is identifying the better teachers, and encouraging other persons currently employed as teachers to find gainful employment in another occupation over time. See also

http://hanushek.stanford.edu/publications/distribution-teach...

on the tricky issues involved in measuring teacher quality.
Let's just say "I know a gal" who was fired from a company in the Valley because of that very discrimination. She had a master's degree and had been at the company almost 1+ year when she discovered that than the guy she was training, a dropout art school student whose "industry experience" amounted to working at Home Depot as a cashier was earning more. When my friend asked for equal pay for equal work, citing Obama's signing of Lily Ledbetter, her employers cut her salary to hourly, started writing her up for even the most minor infraction, and eventually ended up firing her. From what she tells me, she was unable to afford legal representation, Silicon Valley attorneys literally laughed at her (said they would not take the case for free), so she ended up signing a stack of legal mumbo jumbo that literally raped her of all her legal rights.

It's very hard to take this story at face value.
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And thus began the era of spam bots written with jsdom/PhantomJS.
Yes that's a good point. However consider it from the perspective of a LGB community member. LGB people are broadly of the belief that one should come out when one's ready, and no-one should out someone without their permission. However that shouldn't apply to people who are actively working against the LGB community, the people who get up on stage and say "These people (LGB) are not full human beings" (as the Pope said recently). Those people should be outed.
I think he probably starts checking for the mouse movement as soon as the page loads.
For me, it came down to taking the rest of the system as seriously as the kernel. I first installed Linux back in the 0.9 days and it was interesting but no more so than 386BSD or TSX-32: boot the kernel and spend time trying to get applications to compile. Forward ahead a year or two to Slackware where packages installed in a few seconds rather than significant fractions of an hour (yay, 20MHz 386!) because they had binary packaging and updates were relatively simple, freeing time to write code in this hot new Perl language rather than trying to compile it.

I tried FreeBSD & OpenBSD repeatedly over the years, even running a key company server on OpenBSD for awhile in the late 90s / early 2000s - security was compelling - but I noticed two things:

1. BSD users treated updates like going to the dentist and put them off until forced - not without cause, as ports frequently either broke things or simply spent hours rebuilding the world - whereas Linux users generally spent time working on their actual job rather than impromptu sysadmin. "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" had by then an established track record of Just Working and fresh install time for a complex system was measured in minutes for Debian (iops-limited) and, even as late as 2004 or so when we ditched the platform, days for FreeBSD even when performed by our resident FreeBSD advocate. I'm sure there are ways to automate it but while routine in the Linux world, I've never met a BSD user in person who actually did this.

2. The BSD systems were simply less stable, often dramatically so, because the parts were never tested together: you had the kernel which is stable and deserves significant respect but everything else was a random hodgepodge of whatever versions happened to be installed the last time someone ran ports. Unlike, say, Debian or Red Hat there was no culture of testing complete systems so a few months after a new release you'd often encounter the kind of "foo needs libbar 1.2.3 but baaz needs 1.1.9" dependency mess which required you to spend time troubleshooting and tinkering – a class of problem which simply did not exist at the system level for most of the Linux world. It wasn't as bad as Solaris but the overall impression was more similar than I'd like.

One other observation: during years of using Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris / Nexenta / etc. on a number of systems (the most I've managed personally at any point in time was around ~100) there were almost no times where the actual kernel mattered significantly in a positive direction. Performing benchmarks on our servers or cluster compute nodes showed no significant difference, so we went with easier management. On the desktop, again no significant performance difference so we went with easier management and better video driver support (eventually why many desktop users moved to OS X - no more GL wars). There was a period where more stable NFS might have been compelling but the BSD and Linux NFS clients both sucked in similar ways (deadlocking most times a packet dropped) and the Linux client got better faster and we ended up automating dead mount detection with lazy-unmounts to reduce the user-visible damage.
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> (being married makes this a little bit less awkward for me)

I would think that it would make it MORE awkward for you to ask a female colleague to go out.
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A lot of companies lost money on every sale hoping to make it up in volume, especially in the late 90s. A lot of companies went public while losing money, especially in the late 90s. Most went bust.

Amazon did both, survived & built a great company.

If they say they are going to break even selling devices and make it up selling complimentary stuff, that sounds very doable.
So sexism, like any form of discrimination, doesn't just come in shocking bright red, "hey honey, why don't we go into the copy room for some hubba hubba". Rape can be a sexist act of violence, that's an extreme. Just because that extreme exists doesn't mean that less obvious forms of sexism and discrimination aren't ugly and evil.

A really pernicious dirty disgusting thing about sexism (and racism) is that it can be subtle, and hidden, and still hurt people. Pay rates, job discrimination, advancement are examples. Pressure to conform to a feminine ideal or be see as "bitchy" or overly aggressive.

So yeah, that's one bad thing. There are plenty of bad things. And sexism is bad for your business. Because discrimination doesn't just mean that some people are privileged over others. It means viewpoints, ideas, projects etc. from people who are women are not given the attention they deserve not because they are lacking, but because their source lacks testes. Discrimination doesn't just hurt women, it hurts everybody.

You advance a guy over a more deserving woman... you are hurting your business. sexism is suboptimal. It doesn't even have to be that obvious. You make a person feel unhappy or uncomfortable at work and the work their team is doing will suffer, if only because of the communication problems that arise.

Even if you aren't sexist (and it's hard to be a hundred percept free from stuff like that) sexism still informs the industry. The things you do that contribute to you being a programmer are often informed by gender roles and expectations. Math class for example.

Anyway, I recently came up with a test for sexism. It's a test I fail, but it makes me think. Ask yourself, is it better for something, a hobby, a sport, whatever to be manly or womanly?
Put plainly by Wikipedia[1]:

Life provides an example of emergence and self-organization. It is interesting for computer scientists, physicists, biologists, biochemists, economists, mathematicians, philosophers, generative scientists and others to observe the way that complex patterns can emerge from the implementation of very simple rules. The game can also serve as a didactic analogy, used to convey the somewhat counter-intuitive notion that "design" and "organization" can spontaneously emerge in the absence of a designer. For example, philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett has used the analogue of Conway's Life "universe" extensively to illustrate the possible evolution of complex philosophical constructs, such as consciousness and free will, from the relatively simple set of deterministic physical laws governing our own universe.

If you go deep enough, it really is a fascinating thing. Even more-so given the extreme simplicity of its rules.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Game_of_Life#Origins
>However, isn't that something of the past?
Not even remotely. Adobe Business Catalyst users have been getting hammered with comment spam for months now, it shows up in waves on livejournal and I catch it regularly in my akismet queue in wordpress. I see it everywhere, still. If there's a form, something will try to post a link in it.

>I've totally outsourced my blog comments to Disqus
That's all well and good until someone writes a bot designed to target Disqus users because of the size of its userbase.
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I'm thinking she means what dfxm12 is saying in his reply: Do, Lead, Build something, and Make a statement with the thing you build.
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Absolutely regarding acceptance of failure.. Could perhaps be the most important experience associated with a start-up. As devasting as realizing failure is, it's subtly warming when you recognize and apply what you've learned from your failures towards a new venture.
But don't you see, that's the point. There are limits on "free speech", you just declare something as illegal. This kind of thinking is how many other countries have laws banning certain speech, which USA courts would probably view as protected. E.g. in EU you have the right to privacy, so there are various laws that say you cannot report things about some people without their consent. That sort of thing might be protected in USA. But the EU say "Wrecking someone's privacy is a crime, and we have free speech". Saying "All speech is protected, but if there are some laws then the thing doesn't count as speech and hence isn't allowed to be protected", is misleading, because loads of countries follow that rule, but have different free speech rules.

Every country decides where to set it's limits, the USA is almost certainly the one that has a few limits as possible, but it has limits, it has set the line somewhere/
I agree totally with what you say. She really doesn't have the experience in age or diversity of tech career fields to base her opinion.

Women are underrepresented in tech, and that is a big problem. Just look at college CS classes, hackerspaces, meetup groups for various programming languages, etc. I think that in a lot of bigger companies, there are institutional pressures to keep this stuff on the downlow, but are more prevalent in startups.
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Why wait on it to be accepted by the distros? What is stopping you from setting up a small Yum/Apt repo and publishing your GPG key?
I believe that in most common distributions, both curl and wget will be supplied with ca-certificates out of the box.

e.g

> $ dig +short ssl.example.com

> 123.456.789.012

> $ curl -I https://123.456.789.012/foo.bar

> curl: (51) SSL: certificate subject name 'ssl.example.com' > does not match target host name '123.456.789.012'

Besides that, he makes several good points which I think should speak for themselves.
> Diff and merge algorithms are line-oriented.

No, diff and merge algorithms are symbol-oriented.

For reasons that are as historical as they are technical, most diff and merge programs choose to break documents up on a line level of granularity in order to produce the symbols that are passed into the algorithm. But that's a design decision, not a technical one.

A diff/merge program that operates at a word level of granularity should be just as capable of handling two words edited on the same line as a line-oriented diff program is of handling two lines edited in the same function.

> The post proposes a single line-break after each clause or sentence, and then a double line-break after each paragraph.

It's a lot easier to rewrite the typographical conventions a piece of software conforms to than it is to rewrite the typographical conventions that millions of humans grew up using. Teaching the diff/merge program to recognize that CRLF isn't the only text boundary out there would achieve the same effect* at much lower cost.

*I realize that abbreviations complicate it somewhat. I'd submit, though, that if a basic diff/merge program is being relied on too closely in a scenario where that actually causes any consequential problems then the real error might be between Mr. Diff User's keyboard and chair. For normal diff usage 'failed' symbol boundary determinations like that are fine, the same as how a traditional line-oriented diff program doesn't critically suffer from the way it would interpret me inserting a carriage return into a line of code.
Agreed, although there are a few examples of VMware employees creating internal tools that end up open sourced - Review Board is an excellent example (basically all the management tools in the ESXi environment, including the console UI, are written in Python/swig - they have sharp coders in many languages).

Maybe this falls into that category - vCenter Orchestrator workflows are all written in JavaScript (or at least,they used to be).

EDIT - Apparently this is based on Eclipse Orion, so unlikely it's something used in the way I postulated.
It could also just put up a page that says "Because no mouse movement has been detected, there's a possibility you might be a bot; to show you're not, please move your mouse around a bit and then click <submit> again."
I totally understand the motivation to make it an iPad-only app, but I don't get it why I can't read these articles on my first-gen iPad.
There are many bots now that can handle javascript.

What is working for you is it's custom code.

Anything that doesn't match standard templates is helpful.
In further news, bears shit in the woods. Did anyone not get that they were making money with the content, and not the reader?
Yeah, he should actively support his competitors...

And that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
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I would say almost certainly yes. In my own forum I found that a short period after I had implemented spam filtering, the moderation queue length (everything that gets rejected as spam goes in to the mod queue) had very little spam in it. I would surmise that spam bots are at least smart enough to check that their posts are getting through, and if not, don't waste time posting content (just try one every now and then to see if you can slip one through and then hammer it!).
If you do it to a judge or congressman, i'm sure that would change ASAP
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I think that would send a comment to moderation on their site, but yeah, submitting comments with GET is silly.
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How does it stack against brackets? https://github.com/adobe/brackets

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